Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Monday called on Donald Trump to live up to his campaign promises to protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security or else admit that he lied about his support of those programs during the presidential campaign.
In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Sanders confronted Trump with the same choice he outlined on the floor of the Senate last week: Admit he lied during the campaign, or “instruct his Republican colleagues to end their efforts to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and inform them that if they don’t, he will veto any bills that cut those life-and-death programs.”
Sanders referenced Trump’s September appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” where he promised to support health care for “everybody.” He previously made the internet rounds for blowing up Trump’s Twitter promise to protect entitlements on a huge poster board to display during last week’s floor speech.
In the op-ed, Sanders also announced a nation-wide day of action on Jan. 15, “Our First Stand: Save Health Care” to advocate for “economic and social justice,” including an event he plans to attend in Michigan with new Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Gary Peters (D-MI).
Addressing Republican leadership, he wrote: “We will demonstrate in their communities, jam up their phone lines and throw them out at the ballot box if they go forward with their plans.”
good!
calling the pretender out on his lies…lets hope the dems don’t leave sanders out in the cold…and start acting like the opposition should.
and that means VERBALLY!..which is what the people want to see.
the pretender will be in a rubber room shortly after such a sustained strategy!
Good on ya, Bernie!
Keep up the pressure. From all sides. On all things.
Bravo, Senator Sanders! This is the way to handle Pepe - simply give him two options and tell him to choose.
I learned this method [the hard way] when my child was a toddler. One doesn’t ask a 2-year-old what he wants to eat for lunch, one asks him if he would like peanut butter and jelly or eggs. A young child, and a sick old man, can’t be asked anything that requires critical thinking but, by giving two options, the child, or man-child, is allowed to feel he has some control over the outcome.
We need to treat Pepe as we would a 2-year-old and that includes keeping him away from dangerous object, i.e. nuclear codes.
I tire of Sanders blowing smoke. He has always said the most obvious things.
As if Trump would ever admit to any lie.
Sanders would do more good if he stated specific consequences of Obamacare repeal. Inform people, in other words.
Tell them what they will lose. Only if they get pissed enough, as in the ethics case, and scream bloody murder to their representatives will the madness stop.
Silence complicity.
Admit that Trump lied during the campaign? He lied during the ENTIRE campaign, and everyone knows it–even his supporters. They just excuse it.